Kusadikika wrote:No matter how he ended up there I am 1000% sure Jeff is having more fun at K24 than he would ever have had in a lifetime at CNN even if they paid him 1000 times more than he makes now. He has his own show, he deals with people and topics he is passionate about, he works in Kenya, he is mentoring young people.
Mentoring young people to do what???
I am not a fan of his program but the times I have watched it, I have realized that Jeff is as biased as they come. He has opinions on different topics and will normally invite guests who share his opinion and steer the interview towards a certain direction.
He somehow believes that the retaliatory attacks in Naivasha and elsewhere helped end the PEV. He has had numerous interviews to push this opinion. I have never seen one where he invited a guest with an opposing opinion.
He is totally against the Hague trials and has invited guests who share this opinion including an "expert on African something" who has become a repeat guest and the fellows [Americans] who had filed a case against the trial. Even the times he has hosted Ocampo, he has tried to illustrate how the process/case is flawed but Ocampo has proven too smart for him.
He holds the same opinion as most of us that MPs should be degree holders but as a journalist, he should invite guests who share this opinion and those who are opposed to it. Last week (or last week but one) he invited a "youth leader" who's message was to encourage the youth to vote and also vie for different posts. The "youth leader" mentioned that the requirement to have a degree is discriminatory etc. Jeff quickly steered the conversation in another direction!
It is okay for everyone - including journalists - to have an opinion, but an objective journalist should invite contributions from both sides of an argument and give the guests an equal opportunity to discuss their perceived merits and de-merits of each scenario.
I personally don't take what Jeff does to be journalism!!! I wouldn't want him to ever mentor my son or daughter!
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